On 5 February Brussels signaled its willingness to allow professionals from LDCs to provide short-term services in about 30 sectors or subsectors, including architecture, engineering, research and development, management consulting and computer services.

The European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks has concluded that the current migration limits for chromium VI from toys should be revised downward but acknowledges that the proposed limits may not be achievable for certain toy materials.

The consultation to be held 19-20 March will concentrate on matters covered by four recent discussion drafts on topics such as profit splits in the context of global value chains and transfer pricing aspects of cross-border commodity transactions.